Macro/micro-mobility fast handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6

Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) has been proposed to solve the problem of mobility in the new era of Internet by handling routing of IPv6 packets to mobile nodes that have moved away from their home network. Users will move frequently between networks, as they stay connected to the Internet. Thus, as mobility increases across networks, handovers will significantly impact the quality of the connection and user application. However, MIPv6 only defines means of managing global (macro)-mobility but does not address micro-mobility separately. Instead, it uses the same mechanism in both cases. This involves long handover delay and signaling load. The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) protocol has been proposed as an extension of basic MIPv6 to solve this problem by splitting the handover management into macro-mobility and micro-mobility schemes. HMIPv6 introduced a new protocol agent called Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) to manage mobility and serve as a local entity to aid in mobile handover. The handover (or registration) operation is the operation when MN registers its presence to its Home Agent (HA) and Correspondent Node (CN). This paper proposes a mechanism to perform fast handover in HMIPv6 by adopting the multicast technique to the MAP for both macro-mobility and micro-mobility management. Our proposal is designed to minimize service disruption that occurs during the registration operation. We simulate the performance using network simulator (NS-2) and we present and analyze the performance testing for our proposal by comparing it with the basic hierarchical mobile IPv6. The results show that our scheme allows the MN to receive packets faster than the basic HMIPv6

Macro/micro-mobility fast handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6

Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (MIPv6) has been proposed to solve the problem of mobility in the new era of Internet by handling routing of IPv6 packets to mobile nodes that have moved away from their home network. Users will move frequently between networks, as they stay connected to the Internet. Thus, as mobility increases across networks, handovers will significantly impact the quality of the connection and user application. However, MIPv6 only defines means of managing global (macro)-mobility but does not address micro-mobility separately. Instead, it uses the same mechanism in both cases. This involves long handover delay and signaling load. The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) protocol has been proposed as an extension of basic MIPv6 to solve this problem by splitting the handover management into macro-mobility and micro-mobility schemes. HMIPv6 introduced a new protocol agent called Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) to manage mobility and serve as a local entity to aid in mobile handover. The handover (or registration) operation is the operation when MN registers its presence to its Home Agent (HA) and Correspondent Node (CN). This paper proposes a mechanism to perform fast handover in HMIPv6 by adopting the multicast technique to the MAP for both macromobility and micro-mobility management. Our proposal is designed to minimize service disruption that occurs during the registration operation. We simulate the performance using network simulator (NS-2) and we present and analyze the performance testing for our proposal by comparing it with the basic hierarchical mobile IPv6. The results show that our scheme allows the MN to receive packets faster than the basic HMIPv6

Routing scheme for macro mobility handover in hierarchical mobile IPv6 network

Significant problems in basic mobile IPv6 occur due to its inability to support micro-mobility because of long delay and high packet loss during handover. Hierarchical mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) as an extension of basic Mobile IPv6 solves the problem by separating the handover management to macromobility and micro-mobility. HMIPv6 introduced a new protocol element called Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) to manage the mobility. HMIPv6 can reduce the delay and the amount of signaling during handover. However the protocol still cannot meet the requirement for traffic that is delay sensitive such as voice especially in macro mobility management. Duplicate address detection and the transmission time for the handover operation could cause high handover delay

Infrastructure services platform for mobility architectures

Orientador: Eleri CardozoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de ComputaçãoResumo: Arquiteturas de micromobilidade vêm sendo propostas para atender ao crescente interesse por tecnologias de mobilidade IP. MPA (Mobility Plane Architecture), desenvolvida na FEEC/Unicamp, é uma solução de micromobilidade baseada em tunelamento de pacotes que emprega apenas protocolos bem estabelecidos. Quando estudou-se aplicações para melhoria de desempenho em handover e engenharia de tráfego na arquitetura MPA, verificou-se que estas aplicações necessitavam serviços comuns. Este trabalho descreve a plataforma MIS (Mobility Infrastructure Services) que fornece um conjunto de serviços para suporte ás funcionalidades básicas comuns de aplicações de gerência de rede, engenharia de tráfego e gerência de mobilidade. A plataforma proposta facilita o desenvolvimento de tais aplicações compartilhando soluções às necessidades encontradas na arquitetura de micromobilidade MPA e outras arquiteturas similares. São apresentados o projeto, implementação e testes da plataforma, juntamente com dois estudos de casos em gerência de mobilidade e engenharia de tráfego. Palavras-chave: redes IP móveis, micromobilidade, gerência de rede, engenharia de tráfegoAbstract: Micro-mobility architectures have been proposed to meet the growing interest in technologies supporting mobility in IP networks. MPA (Mobility Plane Architecture), developed at the FEEC/Unicamp, is a micro-mobility solution based on tunneling of packets that employs only well standardized protocols. When applications for supporting seamless handover and traffic engineering in MPA started to be designed, it was noticed that these applications demand a set of common services. This dissertation presents the MIS (Mobility Infrastructure Services) platform which provides a set of services that meet the common basic features demanded by applications of network management, traffic engineering and mobility management. The proposed platform facilitates the development of these applications when they are targeted to MPA and other micro-mobility architectures. This dissertation reports the design, implementation, ant test of the MIS platform, along with two case studies in mobility management and traffic engineering. Keywords: IP mobile networks, micro-mobility, network management, traffic engineeringMestradoEngenharia de ComputaçãoMestre em Engenharia Elétric

Fast and seamless mobility management in IPV6-based next-generation wireless networks

Introduction -- Access router tunnelling protocol (ARTP) -- Proposed integrated architecture for next generation wireless networks -- Proposed seamless handoff schemes in next generation wireless networks -- Proposed fast mac layer handoff scheme for MIPV6/WLANs

Radio Communications

In the last decades the restless evolution of information and communication technologies (ICT) brought to a deep transformation of our habits. The growth of the Internet and the advances in hardware and software implementations modified our way to communicate and to share information. In this book, an overview of the major issues faced today by researchers in the field of radio communications is given through 35 high quality chapters written by specialists working in universities and research centers all over the world. Various aspects will be deeply discussed: channel modeling, beamforming, multiple antennas, cooperative networks, opportunistic scheduling, advanced admission control, handover management, systems performance assessment, routing issues in mobility conditions, localization, web security. Advanced techniques for the radio resource management will be discussed both in single and multiple radio technologies; either in infrastructure, mesh or ad hoc networks